Question

What are preposition and adverb

Answer 1

Answer:

A preposition is a word or group of words used before a noun, pronoun, or noun phrase to show direction, time, place, location, spatial relationships, or to introduce an object. Some examples of prepositions are words like "in," "at," "on," "of," and "to." Prepositions in English are highly idiomatic

An adverb is a word or an expression that modifies a verb, adjective, another adverb, determiner, clause, preposition, or sentence. Adverbs typically express manner, place, time, frequency, degree, level of certainty, etc., answering questions such as how?, in what way?, when?, where?, and to what extent?.

Answer 2

Answer:

Explanation:

Preposition: A preposition is a word before a noun or a pronoun to show the relationship between the person or the thing denoted by it and something else; as:

• (a) We saw a horse on the road.
• (b) I am fond of chocolates.
• (c) The monkey jumped off the table.

In sentence (a), The preposition joins a noun to another noun.

In sentence (b), The preposition joins a noun to an adjective.

In sentence (c), The preposition joins a noun to a verb

Prepositions of time:

• for, since, at, in, on, by, till, to, in, within, in, after, before, for.

Prepositions of place:

• in, at, on, upon, beside, besides, between, among, in, into, by, with.

etc..

Adverb: The word, 'adverb' suggests the idea of adding to the meaning of a verb; in fact, it modifies a verb, an adjective or another adverb. Adverbs can be single words (slowly) or phrases (in the garden, on Monday) and the term, adverbial is often uses to describe both types. Adverbs follow a peculiar word order.

Adverbs of frequency:

• often, always, rarely, merely, rather, soon, still, therefore, almost, already, also, hardly, just, not only, quite.

Adverbs of manner:

• badly, carefully.

etc..